Re:Free Games! (Score 1)

Take one look at the games posted on digipen and you'll know exactly why so many game companies are failing. All the games are crappy knockoffs of games that have been done better before. Of course, the students are still learning, but it makes you wonder whether video game design schools will merely contribute to the flood of unoriginal games. Sure, students will have the specialized training necessary to jump right into the game industry. Sure, they'll know how to pump out a basic game quickly. But I would also expect that standardized training will lead to more cookiecutter games. Open source or not, games (and instruction) like this aren't going to push the envelope of what games are and how we play them.